In a crossover anime, do you believe that a machine spirit can defeat a fake human?

Chen Yi explained.

Although it wasn't visible from Hiratsuka Shizuka's perspective, Kroos's axe was already at its neck, just short of materializing and pulling it off.

It takes less than half a second to complete this set of movements.

As expected of the elite humanoid Krokay.

"Of course, Commander."

Kroos's tail practically wagged in the air after hearing the praise; it was incredibly cute.

......

They arrived at the stairwell, but it wasn't the same stairwell they had used to go up. This stairwell had windows, letting in sunlight, so they didn't have to worry about the fake people lying in ambush.

"It's almost noon now," Hiratsuka Shizuka remarked casually, glancing at the sun's altitude outside.

"Hmm, it's probably around 11:30." Chen Yi glanced at his wrist.

They were on the mezzanine floor on the eighth floor, where sunlight streamed onto the floor, creating a warm atmosphere.

"Boom."

A muffled thud, like something falling to the ground.

"Seven is just below..." Chen Yi, who was walking in front, paused for a moment.

"what happened?"

"Kroos, this mark..."

"Commander, this could be from the goblin that was chasing the fleeing Mistman when we first came here."

Klukka thought for a moment before answering.

Just below the seventh-floor platform, the stairs and walls were blasted open, riddled with holes.

"The smell here..." Hiratsuka Shizuka slowed her breathing.

"Then we shouldn't stay any longer."

Chen Yi pushed open the fire door on the seventh-floor platform and went inside first.

Chen Yi stopped in his tracks.

"This is the room under the snow back then." Chen Yi glanced at the room number, squatted down, took out a spy camera from his waistband, and made a brief peek behind the door.

"My luggage is all here..." Chen Yi put away the spy camera, stood up straight, and glared at the doorknob.

Heaven knows why this hotel room still uses an old-fashioned key to unlock it, without even a key card. The electronic warfare doll has no way to deal with it.

So Chen Yi squatted down and searched around for a couple of minutes, then pulled out a paperclip, straightened it, and poked it into the keyhole, turning it around a couple of times to open the lock.

"?"

This whole operation left Hiratsuka Shizuka completely bewildered and utterly astonished.

What did you just do?

"I don't know." Chen Yi clasped his hands together in front of the door lock, then pushed the door open and went inside.

Is this really that outrageous, buddy...?

I feel like my worldview has already been severely damaged enough today. Please stop destroying the worldview of "My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong As Expected".

So Hiratsuka Shizuka simply cleared her mind and stopped thinking about what had just happened.

"...Speaking of which, what were you looking for in Yukinoshita's room?" Hiratsuka Shizuka asked casually as she watched Chen Yi rummaging through the room, sitting on the sofa.

"Since we're here, we might as well take a look." Chen Yi used a hand axe to pry open the pipe grille and then put the 'soldier ants' inside.

Although last time they almost got scammed because they couldn't find anything in the ventilation ducts, they shouldn't be this bad this time.

At least we have far more countermeasures than before.

"Commander, there seems to be some movement at the door," Kluke reminded him, and Chen Yi had no choice but to close the combat tablet he had just opened.

"Hiratsuka-sensei, step back and don't enter the entrance hall," Chen Yi instructed methodically.

"Of course I know..."

Two laser beams hovered near the peephole, waiting for the other party to break down the door.

"Boom--!"

A much louder noise followed, far louder than the illusionary noises we had heard before.

Chen Yi looked behind him and saw a bright light flashing by on the hotel building in the distance.

It is the 'Sleeping Beauty' lady.

Chen Yi turned around and saw a huge, almost circular gap in the door, and outside the door, only half of an unknown pseudo-human remained.

Revisiting Izu: Chapter 215 Boiling Point

Chapter 215

"The Man in the Mist..."

The lower half of the person in the mist outside the door slowly fell down, and Chen Yi remembered what kind of mutant the other party was.

The hotel's 'security guards' spotted them.

"I'd love to catch up and say something witty, but there's clearly no time right now, Commander~"

Lorelei's voice echoed in my mind.

"Thanks," Chen Yi replied in his mind, then glanced at Hiratsuka Shizuka, who was hiding under cover.

"This sniper is one of our own. We need to retreat; we've already been spotted."

Chen Yi pondered. The surveillance cameras they had just passed were all normal cameras that hadn't been replaced, and all of these cameras were under his control. How did the other party discover their presence?

"One of our own?"

Hiratsuka Shizuka stood up and glanced towards the balcony.

The glass door was shattered, but even though it affected the target slightly, it didn't hinder the hit. That's terrifying accuracy...

No, that's not right. This caliber isn't your average sniper bullet; it's an anti-materiel round.

"Who is your sniper?"

"We'll talk about it when we get to a safe place." Chen Yi opened the door, stepped over the half-dead figure in the mist on the ground, glanced left and right, and walked towards the elevator.

There's hardly any chance left to take another look at the room I stayed in. Since Lorelei has reminded me of this, it's obvious that there's someone tough to deal with chasing after me.

"Take the elevator? Aren't you afraid of getting stuck inside?"

Hiratsuka Shizuka quickly followed, keeping watch on the rear.

"Hiratsuka-sensei, do you know how to rappel? If so, it's faster than going up the stairs."

"boom--!"

The soldier ants, which had essentially played no reconnaissance role throughout the entire process, suddenly exploded somewhere with a muffled thud.

"I'm afraid the elevator is a fake too." Chen Yi pressed the elevator button, then grabbed the door frame with both hands and pulled hard to open the elevator door.

The elevator slowly stopped at Chen Yi's floor and then opened the car door.

Chen Yi's eyelids twitched violently as he looked at the dense network of blood vessels and soft tissue outside the elevator car door.

Kroos's phantom appeared in the elevator. She pressed a down button and then disappeared.

As the elevator doors closed, Chen Yi silently watched the 'elevator' slowly descend, then aimed and shot through all the iron cables suspending the 'elevator'.

As the elevator descended, Chen Yi watched it spark as it rubbed against the ground. A few seconds later, a loud noise came from below.

"...The elevator shaft doesn't seem very safe either, let's take the stairs instead." Chen Yi lit a flashlight and threw it into the stairwell, illuminating a lot of soft nerve tissue growing on the wall.

The two quickened their pace, opened the fire door of the stairwell, and began to run downstairs.

......

Down, and down again...

Chen Yi suddenly stopped in his tracks.

The stairs leading down were covered with a scarlet fungal carpet.

"This is the staircase we took to get here," Hiratsuka Shizuka replied. They were currently on the fourth floor.

There are no windows to let in sunlight... tsk.

Hiratsuka Shizuka clicked her tongue, and seeing Chen Yi stumble in front of her, she quickly reached out to support him.

"what happened to you?"

“This is it…” Chen Yi glanced at the scarlet fungal carpet, his head throbbing with pain.

"The one who's boiling over should be down there..."

"Don't tell me you're planning to go down and look for that thing." Hiratsuka Shizuka pressed Chen Yi down.

Chen Yi took out a bottle of chili flakes from his pocket, unscrewed the cap, and poured it into his mouth.

With little success.

"Krooka, how many of the surveillance cameras below the fourth floor are still working?" Once his head was less dizzy, Chen Yi asked Krooka.

"Parts of the second and third floors are still visible, but the first floor is completely invisible."

Kroos answered, pausing for a moment.

"...I think I've found the real thing."

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Yi opened the combat tablet, and the monitoring screen was already displayed on it.

In the very center of the second-floor restaurant, a huge mass of flesh and blood was writhing, and at the top of the flesh and blood was the inverted triangular red face that Chen Yi 'dreamed of'.

The mountains and rivers seemed to block the way.

"Hiratsuka-sensei..."

"Since things have come to this, let's just leave," Hiratsuka Shizuka cut off Chen Yi's remaining words.

"...Hiratsuka-sensei, then you must not get involved in the main battle. Your primary goal is to protect yourself."

"Come on, I'm not that fragile."

Hiratsuka Shizuka laughed and cursed.

"Alright, let's get ready to go." Chen Yi pulled out the magazine of his HK416, took out two bullets, and threw them down the stairs. The resulting burst of highly corrosive purple liquid cleared a path.

After inserting the magazine back into place, Chen Yi handed the HK416 to Hiratsuka Shizuka, along with several magazines of acid-corroding bullets.

"Use this."

Hiratsuka Shizuka didn't mince words, she slung the gun over her back and secured it, then took the rifle.

......

I am watching you...

The man in the center of the restaurant was boisterous, repeating a few incomprehensible words as if in a dream, either amusing himself or a devout believer in prayer.

Then, as if by telepathy, it turned its head toward Chen Yi.

'Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy need.'

The Boiling One didn't speak, but his voice exploded directly in Chen Yi's mind.

Without hesitation, Chen Yi raised his hand and fired a grenade.

He missed; the euphoria was influencing his thinking.

"Krooka!"

Chen Yi called out, and Kroc's figure appeared, leaping lightly and hanging above the restaurant, firing a gun with one hand.

The bullet sank into the scarlet liquid without splashing.

Chen Yi tried to activate the corrosive liquid, but found that the red fungal carpet seemed to be flowing, and its effect was far less strong than that of corroding solids.

'Thy kindred come. Thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven.'